65-7405. Primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee; membership; duties. (a) There is hereby established the primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee within the department of health and environment. The committee shall consist of five members.

(b) The members of the primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee shall be appointed by the secretary in accordance with the following: (1) Two members shall be representatives of the department of health and environment selected by the secretary; (2) one member shall be appointed by the secretary who is nominated by the Kansas development finance authority; (3) one member shall be appointed by the secretary who is nominated by the director of health care finance; and (4) one member shall be appointed by the secretary who is nominated by the Kansas association for the medically underserved.

(c) The secretary may appoint persons as members of the primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee who are officers or employees of the agencies or organizations they are nominated by or that they are appointed to represent. Not more than three members of the committee shall be affiliated with the same political party. Members shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary.

(d) The primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee shall review all proposals for loan financing guarantees under this act and shall approve those proposals that the committee deems to represent reasonable risks and to have a sufficient likelihood of repayment. The committee shall advise the secretary on matters regarding the administration of this act when requested by the secretary and may provide such advice when deemed appropriate by the committee.

(e) The secretary or the secretary's designee shall serve as a nonvoting chairperson of the primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee, and the committee shall annually elect a vice-chairperson from among its members. The committee shall meet upon call of the chairperson or upon call of any two of its members. Three voting members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(f) Members of the primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee attending meetings of the committee, or attending a subcommittee meeting thereof authorized by the committee, shall be paid compensation, subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses as provided in K.S.A. 75-3223, and amendments thereto.

History: L. 2007, ch. 177, § 9; L. 2012, ch. 102, § 32; July 1.